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**Jffxljtw** · 07-27-2006, 08:00 AM

If one is of the Judeo-Christian Modernist Blues school , he would, of course , have been The Devil ( or " de Debbil", to employ the vernacular). As a subscriber to the more holistic, pre-colonialist mode of Pan-African musical expression, I prefer to think of him as Legba, The Trickster, or , in the New World, Papa Legba, symbol of light-as-creation, the solar-phallic source of the world.

Refering to him as the Devil, is, it seems to me, merely a means of continuing reification of the neo-colonialist gaze.

p.s. Yes, I know. Use of the word "reification" means I can never, ever sing the blues.

Waiter! I'll have a Snapple. In a dirty glass.

07-27-2006, 08:00 AM	#19
Jffxljtw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 394 Senior Member	If one is of the Judeo-Christian Modernist Blues school , he would, of course , have been The Devil ( or " de Debbil", to employ the vernacular). As a subscriber to the more holistic, pre-colonialist mode of Pan-African musical expression, I prefer to think of him as Legba, The Trickster, or , in the New World, Papa Legba, symbol of light-as-creation, the solar-phallic source of the world. Refering to him as the Devil, is, it seems to me, merely a means of continuing reification of the neo-colonialist gaze. p.s. Yes, I know. Use of the word "reification" means I can never, ever sing the blues. Waiter! I'll have a Snapple. In a dirty glass.
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